Package: wnpp
Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : idle3-tools
Version : 0.9.1
Upstream Author : Christophe Bothamy
* URL : http://idle3-tools.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL-3.0+
Programming Lang: C
Description : change the idle3 timer of recent Western Digital Hard Disk Drives
Idle3-tools provides a linux/unix utility that can disable, get and
set the value of the infamous idle3 timer found on recent Western
Digital Hard Disk Drives.
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It can be used as an alternative to the official wdidle3.exe
proprietary utility, without the need to reboot in a DOS environment.
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A power off/on cycle of the drive will still be mandatory for new
settings to be taken into account.
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Modern Western Digital "Green" Drives include the Intellipark feature
that stops the disk when not in use.
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Unfortunately, the default timer setting is not perfect on linux/unix
systems, including many NAS, and leads to a dramatic increase of the
Load Cycle Count value (SMART attribute #193).
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If you have a Western Digital EADS or EARS drive, please check your
SMART information before it's too late by running the following command:
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sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep "^193"
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If the Load cycle count exceeds 1000, you're probably affected by the
idle3 timer problem.